AFL GRAND FINAL GEELONG CATS COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES
UMPIRES
were announced on Tuesday for the Grand Final. Field umpires are Chris
Donlon, Brett Rosebury and Shaun Ryan with Matt Stevic the emergency.
Donlon and Ryan umpired the round 24 belting
of the Magpies by Geelong.
They are joined by boundary umpires: Mark Foster, Christopher Gordon,
Mark Thomson, Nathan Doig and Jonathon Creasey (emergency) and goal
umpires David Dixon, Luke Walker and Chelsea Roffey (emergency). AFL
Media Tsar Patrick Keane's bat away of scuttlebutt Roffey was left out
after missing a 'hit the post' by Josh Hunt on the weekend would have
made Neil Balme proud. "Suggestions of a goal umpiring error by
Chelsea Roffey in Saturday's Prelim Final are a media myth. Hunt's long
goal never touched the post", he Tweeted.
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Meanwhile in last night's Brownlow Medal
Geelongs'
players picked up a total of 91 votes, the fourth highest after winner
Dane Swan's Collingwood (111), Hawthorn (104), West Coast (93) andCarlton
(92). As expected Joel Selwood picked up the most votes (17), despite
missing four matches with suspension. Next were Steve Johnson (12) and
Joel Corey (11), the only others in double figures.

Dane
Swan won the award with a record number of votes in the '3-2-1' era,
from St Kilda's Nick Dal Santo on 28. Suspended Hawk Sam Mitchell finished
on 30. Former Geelong champion Gary Ablett polled most of his fledgeling
club's votes (23). The pre-Brownlow favourite Chris Judd and relatively
unfancied Swan swapped positions of last year, where Judd was an outsider
and Swan the short-priced favourite.